Him and I

Chapter 17 - Say it out Loud

I was at a loss, I didn't know what to do, biting the inside of my lip I walked towards the bed in the room and noticed my bag on the floor, Ambrose must have brought it when he left me in here. I searched through it finding my phone and pulling it out. I had 15 missed phone calls from Amelie and 35 unread text messages, just as I was about to call her back, my phone lit up with her name.

"Hello?"

"Angelina? Where the hell are you? Are you alright? What's going on? Why didn't you answer your phone?" Amelie voice yelled down the phone. She was so loud I pulled the phone away from my ear, grimacing at the loudness of her voice.

"I'm alright, I promise."

"Where are you? You're house is burnt to the ground. Do you know this? Derrick said the police have been trying to get in contact with you all night?"

"I don't know where I am but I am kind of safe."

"Kind of safe?"

"Ambrose showed up and told me I had to leave with him for my own safety because of the baby..."

"WHAT?" She screamed once again down the phone causing me to pull the phone away immediately, there was a ringing in my ear causing me to rub at it before returning to the call. "Did he set your house on fire?"

"Well yeah but he helped me take all my stuff from it so..."

"So that makes it okay?"

"I didn't say that Amelie, I'm just saying he could have made me go and leave everything behind."

"I can't believe you just said that." I could hear the disappointed in her voice and could just see her shaking her head and biting her lip, almost as if she was trying to stop herself from hitting me. "I can't believe you willing went with him."

"What was I suppose to do? He isn't exactly the man you say no to."

"Did you at least try to?" She asked and I stayed quiet as I thought about what happened tonight. The more I thought about it the more I realised that I didn't really put up much of a fight. "Angelina, answer me this do you have feelings for him?"

"I...uh...I don't know." I managed to mumble after a moment of silence. My heart was beating out of my chest at the thought of answering that question out loud to someone. I have only ever admitted it to myself.

"Oh my god you do."

"I didn't..."

"I'm your best friend Angelina and I am not stupid." She sighed down the phone. "I can't believe you got feelings for that, that monster."

"I don't know what to do." I finally admitted to her while glancing around the bedroom around me. "I feel so different around him and I like it. He makes me feel alive, like a woman. I don't know how to explain it but I literally crave him."

"You're insane but I still love you. However I do think we need to get you as far away from him as possible because ever second you're around him your life is in danger."

"What do you mean?"

"He is Dean Ambrose, one of three leaders in the Shield. He is a wanted man by law and other criminals. How can you even ask that?"

"I haven't been in danger with him yet?"

"Really? Have you forgotten what happened to your home tonight? Have you forgotten he was one of the reasons for that slime ball you dated?"

"No I haven't. I just meant that I feel safe around him rather than in danger."

"Then you're deluded."

"Gee thanks."

"Look am going to go to the station and get Derrick to trace this call, that way we get you out of there and far away from him. We can all leave Vegas and start a new life somewhere just the four of us."

"The four of us?"

"Yeah, Derrick and I wouldn't let you raise the baby yourself. We got you."

"I appreciate it, I really do but I am okay for now and I don't want to bring you and Derrick into all this. If I get into trouble you will be the first person I call believe me. But I don't think I am a prisoner here."

"Then leave" She said almost immediately her tone becoming one of annoyance at my reluctance to actually leave this place. I would be lying if I said I wasn't surprised myself as this certainly was not like me at all yet here I am defending a man like Ambrose and willing deciding to stay in his company.

"Right now I just need to sleep Amelie I am exhausted."

"I...uh...What?"

"I'll call you tomorrow, I am fine and I love you. Goodnight." I tell her softly before hanging up the phone and placing it on the small bedroom table next to the bed. I tucked my hands in between my thighs biting my lip one last time before getting into the incredibly soft bed. I lay there for a few moments, just staring at the ceiling before my eyes grew heavy and I could no longer keep them open, the room around me going black.